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Looking to up your nacho game? They make a simple and substantial snack on Super Bowl Sunday, but they have far more potential beyond tortilla chips, grated cheese and ground beef, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Chimney cakes are made of soft yeast dough, wrapped around a wooden cone or cylindrical mould on the end of a spit and baked rotisserie-style over hot coals in a fire pit, in the intense heat of a barbecue or in a special oven designed for the job.

Two Penny Chinese is the latest addition to that stretch of First Street S.W., just outside of downtown that's becoming a bit of a food hub — stretching from Bar von der Fels to Proof, with Ten Foot Henry in between.

Back in 1998 Kris Vester launched his first CSA program (community-supported agriculture) as a means of connecting the produce grown on his 160-acre mixed farm, Blue Mountain Biodynamic Farms, directly with those who want to eat it.

Every year, chefs across Canada devote one evening’s service to supporting their neighbours in need. On Oct. 18, more than a dozen Calgary restaurants will be part of the Restaurants for Change initiative, donating the proceeds to The Alex Community Food Centre.

A new farmers’ market opens this weekend in the foothills south of Calgary. A few minutes off Highway 22X, a left and a right and another left down rural roads, past cows, farmhouses and rolling fields, Granary Road houses a public market with more than 30 vendors and fast-casual dining options

A love of music has inspired Calgary pastry chef Chelsea Radke to combine two of her favourite things into a small business she loves. Each cookie, cake and tub of frosting is inspire by or named after a song or band.

The face of farming is changing in Alberta, and YYC Growers — a Calgary co-operative of 18 urban and small rural farms — is inspiring people to reconsider the traditional image of a farmer. It's launched a social media campaign celebrating those who grow and raise our food in and around the city.

Carina Moran and her husband Joel decided to turn the family recipe into a family business, starting out at home and then opening Sweet Capone's Italian Bakery in historic downtown Lacombe with her parents, Deborah and Claude Solda.

East Village Junction, a new pop-up container market, opened on Thursday afternoon, taking over an empty lot across the street from Studio Bell. In the corner, the Apple Lady snagged a spot and will be offering up her fresh produce all summer long.

At Rouge Restaurant in Inglewood, they’re celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary of confederation the way they do it best — by highlighting ingredients and techniques from provinces and regions across the country throughout the year.

Hotel restaurants are often overlooked as dinner destinations for those who aren't actual hotel guests. It's a challenge the Hotel Arts Group has overcome with the popular Yellow Door Bistro and Raw Bar in the Hotel Arts. Their newest addition, Oxbow, takes over the space that was the Chef's Table in the Kensington Riverside Inn.

The sunny new Alex Community Food Centre on 17th Avenue in Forest Lawn aims to strengthen communities and boost physical and mental health by providing education, access and otherwise engaging people through good food.

The small, stand-alone building in Calgary’s oldest park, once occupied by Boxwood, sat empty for just a few months before Jackie Cooke of nearby Avec Bistro jumped on the opportunity to transform it into a new eatery experience.

Thomas Dahlgren and Will Trow believe it should be easier — and more affordable — to get out and drink a good glass of wine. It was this idea that inspired them to open a small wine bar, Bar Von der Fels, this past summer.

It was a love of cooking and of absorbing as much as he could through cookbooks while studying sociology at the University of Calgary that drew executive chef Matthias Fong into the kitchen at River Café.

For many, the après part of a day of skiing, snowshoeing or hiking holds the most appeal; gathering around a crackling fire to nibble on crackers and cheese, and sip wine, local beer or hot chocolate in woolly socks with ruddy cheeked friends.

A new series of casual chats seeks to focus more on people and less on the bottom line, by highlighting successful entrepreneurs 'for whom building community is a consideration, not just making money.'

A bull head hanging on the wall gazes over staff buzzing around the shiny new restaurant on the main floor of the Hudson’s Bay building downtown, sorting glasses and hanging fixtures, adding finishing touches before The Guild opens for real.

It was a taste of real cultured butter — a tangy, intensely buttery butter made with cream and active bacterial cultures (like yogurt) and imported from France —that made Kristie Lee realize Calgary's local butter supply was lacking.

Alberta asparagus is the most fleeting, surest sign of spring - and a six-generation farm in Innisfail is seeing an early crop of the thick juicy stalks thanks to unseasonably warm conditions in the province.

​At $33 per month, Jessica McCarrel pays perhaps the lowest retail rent in Calgary for her tiny 25-square-foot coffee closet, Kaffeeklatsch, tucked into the back of a building with a long history of social justice.

Calgarians love their Italian markets, and the heart of those markets is usually the deli. A new one popped up around Christmas: Sauce Italian Kitchen and Market, and Michelle Hobbs — or Mich, as everyone knows her — is running the deli.

Cluck n’ Cleaver, Nicole and Francine Gomes’ much-anticipated chicken takeout joint, has finally opened in a small, stand-alone building beside Joey’s at 1511 14th St S.W. that was once a rock and gem shop.

Hot dog lovers of a certain vintage can find comfort at Tubby Dog, where bands like Blondie and Devo are often cranked on the stereo and the lineup of old-school stand-up video games — including Frogger, Asteroids and Space Invaders — are a quarter per play.

Through Sharon Hapton's organization Soup Sisters, groups of friends, family members and co-workers in 22 cities from Halifax to Victoria (and down in L.A.) now gather on a regular basis to prepare pots of soup from scratch for those in need.

If there’s one person in the city responsible for the steady expansion of my cookbook collection over the years, it’s Gail Norton. There are those who write cookbooks, and those who sell them. Gail does both, and teaches on the side.

Calgary Eyeopener food guide Julie Van Rosendaal speaks to University of Calgary instructors Dawn Johnston and Lisa Stowe about their unique program that brings students together through food in this edition of Food and the City.

Butlers do still exist, and in fact, the only guilded butler in North America happens to be in the Foothills outside Calgary. Calgary Eyeopener food guide went to find out his story in this week's Food and the City.